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pnWfessioisi.L LARDS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELBHRTOKi GA.
Special attention to the collection of claims, [ly
L. J. GARTRELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ATLANTA , GA,
PRACTICES IN THE tINtTED STATES Clß
euit and District Courts at Atlanta, and
Supreme and Superior Courts of the State.
elkerton business carps.
SHANNON & WORLEY,
ATTORNEYH AT LAW,
ELBERTOiS, GA.
ITT ILL PRACTICE JN THE COtjRTS OF
W the Norther'S Clrcliltand Franklin county
flSrSpeciist'attention given to collections.
J. S. HARNETT,
ATTO RN E Y AT LAW,
ELBBRTOK, GA.
JOKIN T. OSBORN;
Attorney and counselor at law,
ELBEitTON, GA.
WILL PRACTICE TN SUPERIOR COURTS
and Supreme Court. Prompt attention
to the collection of claims. ncv,l7,ly
T. J. BOWMAN & CO-,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
EIjBFRTOIV GA.
WILL attend ty the business of effecting
sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE
as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS.
Applications should be made to T. J.
BOWMAN. SepifLft#
LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES.
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WITH GOOD WORKMAN!
LOW BST TRICKS!
b LOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO
BUSINESS. an 6 A* EXPERIENCE
OF 27 YEARS,
life hopes b'y ficrnesf ami fair dealing to compete
tiny cither manufactory.
flood Buggio's, v/arrdnted, - $125 to $l6O
ii KPAUUNG and BLACKSMITH ing.
tVork done in this line in t very best style.
The libst I liimcVs,
TERMS CASH.
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Fashionable Tailor,
Up-Stairs-. ovSr sivift & Arnold’s Store,
ELHGRI'ON, GEORGIA.
te’ Call and Sec Him.
THE ELBIRrrON
DRUG STORE
H. C. EDMUNDS, Praetor.
Has always on hand a full line of
Ihire Drugs and Fateiii Medicines
Alakes a specialty of
STATIONERY AND
PERFUMERY
Anew assortment of
WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES
Plain and fancy. just, received, including a sup
ply ot LEGAL CAP.
UIGARS ANI) TOBACCO
of all varieties,.constantly on hand.
F. A. F. NOB*LETT,
m.&mun iaioe
ELBBRTON, GA.
Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK
anywhere in Elbert and Hart counties. frelG-6m
W. C. PRESLEY,
WMfL
ELRF.KTON, GA.
Will make first class harness to order, war
ranted, and at prices to suit the times.
Will be glad to show specimens of liis work
to ; parties, and no barm is done if ho work is
wished.
Repairing IPonQ Promptly.
F. W. JACOBS,
HOUSE I SIGN PAINTER
Glazier and Grainer,
GA.
Orders So licited, Satisfaction Guaranteed
‘ ipSXsE’s -
PALACE DINING DOOMS,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Champion Dining Saloon of tlie Soutli
kvkrVßody is invited to call.
THE GAZETTE.
USTow Series.
A WARNING TO CANDIDATES POE
OPPIOE.
As aspirants for political honors are
heard of all, over the United States, it
would not be out of place to give the
experience of a gentleman who run for
the Legislature in one of the Northern
counties, several years ago :
It was after the fall election that we
met him. His name was not Stretch,
but we will so designate him. He poured
his sorrowful story in the ear of an at
tentive, sympathetic listener:
“No, sir; I’N never run for office
again,” said Mr. Stretch. “You know
when they came and asked me if I’d ac
cept a nomination in the legislature they
told me that the whole community want
ed mo to run and that I was certain to
be elected, because I was a man whose
character was so gded that nobody could
find fault with it. I thought bo myself,
and agreed to run, and accordingly they
nominated me. Well sir, the very next
morning, the Argus came out with an
assertion that 1 had been detected steal
ing chickens, and it gave a full history
of the ease, together with pictures of
the chickens, and after darkly hinting
that since abandoning chicken steal
ing I had been continually engaged in
other forms of robbery, it asked if the
people of this State wanted to see a
chichen thief making laws for them.
And tho mischief of it was that I did
hook a couple of chickens from my
grandmother’s coop when I was a boy,
but how’u th’ thunder they ever found
it out beats me. It was fifty-two years
ago.
“Now look at my nose ! It ain’t much
of a noso for beauty, is it ?—I know well
enough that it’s crooked. But nobody
ever alluded to it until I was nominated,
and then tho Argus said thero was a
tradition that I had my nose mashed
around sideways during my career as a
prize fighter, although some people in
sisted that I ha 1 run it hard against a
door while I was drunk. And then all
the illustrated papers in the State be
gan to publish pictures of me with a
nose like the jib-sheet of an oyster sloop,
only twisted around sideways; and one
of them said when I sneered on the
front porch the concussion acted like a
boomerang and blew the back door open.
And then they tackled me about ray
war record. You know I was out with
the militia. And then tho Argue pub
lished a letter from a man who said that
during thaJjatUo of Gettysburg I. was
in a refrTgeraioi r ih a cellar in the town,
pretending that I was ordered there to
mount guard over sowe rations of cold
beef. And the Argus asserted that the
only manoeuvre I was ever good at was
falling back ; that whenever tho enemy
was expected to be approaching I always
made a bee-line for Nova Scotia, and
never turned up till after the fight but
once, and then We were surprised, and I
fired my musket so wildly that I shot our
own Colonel in the leg and surrendered
to an Irishman who belonged to our reg
iment, and who came up to me to bor
row a plug of tobacco. To tell the
truth, I wasn’t much of a fighting man,
but how iu the mischief they found out
about that refrigerator gets me. Awful,
isn’t itf T wouldn’t have minded it so
much, only they got up a poster and
stuck it around the streets and headed
it ‘Stretch’s War Record/ and put ou it
a picture of me with a monstrous lop
sided nose, sitting inside that refrigera
tor gnawing at a bono of the roast beef.
And then, as the campaign went on,
they’ accused me of having delirium tre
mens, of wiping my nose on my sleeve,
of robbing a bank, of selling my dead
aunt to a medical college, and of hold
ing the doctrine that the whale did not
swallow Jonah, and that when Moses
crossed tire Red Sea he paddled over in
a boat. The Argus said that if my wife
dared to tell how I treated her the com
munity would be filled with horror, but
anybody might see for themselves, who
would notice, that her back hair was
thinned out. And it said that I had a
wen on my leg that unfitted me for ac
tive duty any how, even if I had not for
feited all claim to* public confidence
by turning my grandfather out of
doors when he was dying of consump
tion, and then setting my dog on him
and making tlie man roost in a mulberry
tree on tho coldest night last winter for
fear of being eaten up.
' People began to avoid me on the
streets. The general impression prevail
ed that I was a desperate and hardened
villain. I might have stood that, but
you know the way they levied on me
for expenses was awful. There was that
band, I kept that band in luxury for
three months; and it used to come
around and serenade me three nights
in the week, and wake all the babies
in the neighborhood. I lost 200 votes
in consequence of those awakened
babies. Then the club would come and
call on me for a speech, and then I would
have to ask them in to feed, and they
would stay there and howl wntil 4 o’clock
in the morning, and get drunk and fight
and smash' tho furniture and bleed over
the carpets. Then they would assess
me for a mass meeting and adjourn. I
lmncted.out cash for posters, rum, brass
bands, fire-works, torchlight processions,
transparencies and flags, and the Argus
all the time accusing me of buying up
voters and having repeaters in my pay.
The night of tho election the brass
band and club came to congratulate me
on my success, and after having a fine
spree and concluding with a riot in the
parlor, I went to bed, glad I had won
anyhow. The first' thing I saw in the
Argus next morning was the announce-
ESTABLISHED 1859.
ELBERTOI, GEORGIA, JULY 5,1876.
ment that the hoary-headed chicken
stealer had been beaten by over 2,000
majority, and would have to keep his
eccentric nose at home and reflect that
a free people would never elect to a re
sponsible office a man who would tree
his consumptive grandfather and traffic in
the remains of his aunt. So that lets
me out of politics. When I run for of
fice again you may chuck mo right into
an insane asylum.—Cov. Enterprise.
GEORGIA PENITENTIARY AND THE
LESSEES.
Sixty days ago Gov. Smith issued his
proclamation inviting bids for the lease
of the Georgia penitentiary under the
act of the General Assembly, providing
for the leasing for not less than twenty
years. Although it'Was generally known
that such a lease as the law provided
would be immensely profitable to those
Who should secure it, yet thero were but
three companies who put in bids for any
considerable portion of the penitentiary.
These companies were, first, the Dade
Coal Company, engaged in mining in
Dado county, Ga. Second, a company
composed of Messrs. Grant, Colonel
Simpson, of Wilkes county, Major Mur
phy, of Haris county, and their associ
ates. Third, a company of planters
from Southwest Georgia, composed of
Messrs. Lockett & Jordan, W. B. Lowe
and their associates.
Their bids were all in on the 15th inst,
but the Governor declined to accept
eithir, because he was at a loss to de
cido which was best for the State, and
further because he believed all of them
were at too low a figure—the highest
being $-110,000 for the whole peniten
tiary for the twenty years ; and the high
est for one-half of the penitentiary for
twenty years being $237,500. The Gov
ernor thought the whole worth for the
twenty years at least half a million of
dollars and refused to let it go fur lees.
Ho notified all the bidders of hi3 decis
ion, and the final result was as follows:
Tho Dado Coal Company took 300 long
term men, and the other two companies
divide the remainder between them; but
tho State is to secure from each, under
a heavy bond, the pro rata proportion
of the annual payment of $25,000, or
half a million in the twenty years.
The State is certainly to bo congratu
lated on having this institution disposed
of for the next twenty years, placed in
the hands of some of tho best citizens
of the State. And while tho bidders
Lave doubtless "one of tho iu.xjl jv ,'ilta
ble contracts ever awarded in the State,
the Governor has secured for the State
a large revenue instead of a tax; of from
$50,000 to SIOO,OOO per annum, as was
the case before the present piau of leas
ing was adopted.
[Atlanta Constitution.
FORCE DERIVED PROM THE SUN’S
HEAT.
An interesting computation has been
made of the amount of force imparted
to the earth by tho sun’s heat. Accord
ing to the best investigations that have
been made, there is received in one min
ute enough heat to raise the tempera
ture of five and olio half Centigrade. If,
now, we compare this with the work
done by a given amount of heat, as util
ized in a steam engine, it will bo found
that the heat sent to the earth in the
sun’s rays during the space of one min
ute is able to do as much work ns would
bo done by two thousand.steam engines,
100 horse-power each, working con
tinuously for the space of four thousand
years.
What becomes of this inconceivably
great amount of power is worthy of con
sideration ; and we begin to realize the
nature of the problems of the future sci
entists when we reflect that by far the
laiger part of this heat force expends
itself upon the earth in actual Work, on
ly a small portion of it being radiated in
to space. Of course the result accom
plished, such as the maintenance of the
temperature of the earth, ocean, and at
mosphere, the stimulating of animal and
vegetable life, etc., etc., must be the
equivalent of the power retained by our
globe.
NOT EXACTLY THAT WAY.
There is a beautiful incident in somepf
the new Sunday school books. It opens
with a terrible storm at sea, which great
ly frightens tho captain’s wife and all
the sailors. The captain himself w r as
very cool, and when his wife wondered
he took down a sword, flourished it iu
the air a’id asked:
“Are you not afraid ?”
She wasn’t. She said she had faith in
her husbat'd’slove and friendship.
“Neither am I afraid of the storm,”<ho
continued, “for I have faith in the Lord’s
love and protection.”
A captain on the Erie Canal read the
little story the other day and it touched
. his heart. He descended to the cabin,
where his wife was mixing biscuit, and
, putting his fi3t under her nose ho
asked :
“Betsy, are you not afraid ?”
“Nawt much,” she replied, giving him
a dangerous look.
“Why not"?” he yelled.
It would have been very proper for
her to have said something about Divine
Providence, but she didn’t. She rc
plied :
“Because, if you don’t git that paw
oxTt ef my face, I’ll put up this dough
and break another rib for ye!”
Uneasy rests the head that wears a
crown, or even a plug hat, this warm
weather.
AN EXCITING RACE.
The San Francisco Chronicle tells the
following story of an engineer : It was
four years ago last winter. I was com
ing down with a train loaded with cattle.
Tlhe weather had been bad for weeks,
Usd the snow lay deep, but was melting
of fast in the warm weather that had
lifted nearly a week. Tho ground was
sfreurated, and I noticed that things
looked shaky on the mountain. I was
feeling my way along carefully, thinking
the track might spring, as the bed was
Wet and sloppy, when just as I got
around the point of this ridge, I looked
i?p, and it seemed to mo that the whole
mountain above mo had broken loose.
For hundreds cf feet wide the hillside
was in motion, and charging down on
me. The slide started a hundred yards
above the . track and was coming right
down on me like lightning. Rocks, trees
and snow clrifts plunged dowd the face
of the mountain with a thundering roar,
and seemed bent on overwhelming ns
mid burying us in the canyon thousands
of feet below. I was never so close to
death before, although I have had my
share of perils on the road. For a mo
ment I was stupefied, the danger was so
great and escape so hopeless, but only
for a moment. I determirffed not to die
without an effort, but clapped on all
steam, whilo tho brakes were thrown off
at the same time. You can see for your
self that tho grade is heavy here, and
can believe that we made fast time. The
engine seemed-to know her danger, and
to gather horsolf for an effort. Site
leaped, quivering and snorting, down
the grade in the maddest race I ever saw.
Down camo the avalanche like lightning
directly upon us, throwing up clouds of
Hying snow and splinters and rock, and
and away flew the engine like a thing tff
life and beauty, art she was, dragging tho
cars like tho wind down the grade after
he? ribreast of the slide. But it seemed
doomed to be all in vain. The avalanclie
camo faster every moment. It was al
most upon us. The rocks begun to
bound against the cars and over them,
apd the train was hidden in a cloud of
snow. J3ut we were flying through tho
air now ; the wheels seemed never to
touch the rail, and just as I was giving
tjp hope the engine rushed past that
point of land just back there where the
little ravine comes down. This turned
tho current of the slide, so to speak, a
lit Lie,"and was our salvation. The en
yjyie rushed past the point just as tho
Fjfah reached the track, ami a “big- pin©
uprooted in tho edge of tho avalanche,
ft 11 across the next car to the last one
and crushed it. The track was swept
away like a cobweb in a gale, and the
couplings of the cars broke and the cars
fell into the chasm left in the wake of
the slide, aad were carried down to tho
river, a thousand yards below. What
there is left of them lies there yet. Tho
jerk made the engine and train jump the
track, but she kept on her feet, and wo
got off with a fow bruises. That I ac
count ono of tho greatest dangers I ever
had in my twenty years of railroading.
FRIGHTFUL DEATH,
The unnatural habit of kissing dogs
has been the cause of a horrible death
of a young lady. Lady M., a Berlin
paper tells us, had for some time been
afflicted with periodic indisposition, fre
quently becoming so Serious as to pro
dace swelling of the abdomen. The
medicines prescribed by physicians avail
ed nothing, and as little benefit did the
patient receive from visiting, several
years, watering places of established
reputation. On the contrary, the malady
grew to tie so intolerable that, upon con
ference held, physicians called in Privy
Counselor Wilms for a consultation.
Tins physician, observing the sick lady
for some time, and after having pro
pounded several questions, suddenly
asked:
“Has this lady, perhaps, a dog ?”
Surprised at such a question, her
friends shook their heads negatively.
“But, did she ever have ono ?” the
physician continued.
“Yes, some three years ago,” was the
answer.
“And the lady certainly allowed the
dog to kiss her once in a while ?” Mr.
Wilms asked. It, too, bad to be admit
ted, when the doctor felt fully satisfied
of the cause of the indispostion. He
concluded that in kissing the dog blad
der worms—infinitesimal animals with
which none but sick dogs are troubled,
as usual—were made to pass- into the
liver of the patient. The operation per
formed by Mr. Wilms, shortly; afterward,
fully established the correctness of the
diagnosis. The liver of the patient was
peopled by innumerable worms, which
it was patent had passed from tho dog.
The lady w&s operated on three times,
and tho fourth she died.
We are of the opinion that this case
should be read far and near. Wo add
another medical observation in regal'd
to calf’s liver, so popular in most fami
lies. The consumption of this article
ever calls for great care, and it should
never be need except when in its raw
State it is of one color. Calf’s liver is
also frequently full of worms. A mere
speck lighter or darker than the rest is
enough to causo suspicion.
Two Pennsylvania tramps stopped at
the house of a lone widow, and one went
in to beg. Very soon he came out with
a bloody noso and a first class black eye.
“Well, did you get anything, Jack ?”
“Yes,” growled he, “I’ve got the widow's
might.”
Vol. Y.-No. 10.
FAIRLY CAUGHT.
Thero ars more ways than one to con
vey a gentle and effectual admonition to
the erring brother. Here is a good
story of the oldeii time that will illus
trate ortr iiieaning, and who knows but
that it may suit a certain locality not a
thousand miles from this.
Rev. Mr. had preached to one of
the congregations of his own circuit,
and as was the custom of the Methodist
preachers in those days, after preaching
held a class meeting. He had ques
tioned each brother and sister ou the
subject of their experience and practice,
and enjoyment of the divine life, giving
each a word of encouragement and ad
vice; until all the members had been
questioned but a certain prominent
church member who it seemed owned a
distillery .but kept it in the mountains,
“on the sly, ”as he thought. Mr.
had, however, found odt the fact, and
after some serious conversation with
others, the following took place:
Preacher—Well, brother Jerry, how
do you come on making whiskey?
Brother (somewhat startled) —Oh, I
don’t know exactly—tolerably well
enough.
P.—Well, brother, what do you give
for corn ?
B.—Fifty cents a bushel. Ahem !
P.-—Fifty cents ! Very cheap at that,
I should say; bat another question :
how much whiskey do you suppose one
bushel of corn will make 1
B.—Can’t say; I suppose three gal
lons (very much confused.)
P.—Sc ! three gallons ! Why, that’s
a considerable turn out, I should judge.
But, brother, what do you get a gal
lon for whiskey ?
B.—(looking rather wild) —A dollar
and a half.
P. —A dollar and a half! Two hand
red per cent., and that, too, I reckon
by the barrel! You get more by the
jug full, I suppose. But-tell mo, bro
tber, isn’t the slops very good to fat
ten liogs ?
B.—Yes ; very good.
P.—-And won’t your hogs como very
nigh paying for the corn ?
13.—(red as a beet) —Well, vory nigh
it.
P.—But to coma down to tho ques
tion —Brother, do you make a good
article? Will it bear ahead?
By this time the poor delinquent was
perfectly overwhelmed with confusion,
and wished he had neverCeen a distillery
nor tho preacher cither. Put Mr. —
knew his man, and after the meeting
adjourned, took him aside and remon
strated with him with such good effect
that he actually broke up bis distillery
and became a consistent Methodist
But it was a long time before his neigh
bors forgot to ask him whether he “made
a good article/' and “if it would bear a
bead!”
4<9>4
SIZE OF 00UNTRJ.ES,
Greece is about the size of Vermont.
Palestine is ono fourth tho size of
New York.
Hindostan is moro than a hundred
times as large as Palestine.
The great desert of Africa has nearly
tho present dimensions of tho United
States.
The red Sea would reach from Wash
ington to Colorado, and is three times as
wide as lake Ontario.
The English channel is nearly as largo
as lake Superior.
The Mediterranean, if placed across
North America, would make soa nav
igation from San Diego to the city of
Baltimore
The Caspian sea would stretch from
New York to St. Augustine, and as wide
as from New York to Rochester.
Great Britain is about two-thirds the
size of Hindostan; one.twelfth of Chi
na, and one-twenty-fifth of tho United
States.
The gulf of Mexico is about ten Limes
the size of lake Superioi', and as large as
the sea of Kamschatka, bay of Bengal,
China sea, Okhotsk or Japan sea; lake
Ontario would go in each of them more
than fifty times.
Tho following bodies of water are
about the same size: German ocean,
Black sea, Yellow sea ; Hudson bay is
rather large. The Baltic, Adriatic,
Porsian gulf, and ASgean sea, half as
large, and somewhat larger than lako
Superior.
Don’t Like the Financial Plank in
the Platform. —A New York letter says
the bondholders and money monopolists
of Wall street hre not well satisfied with
the Cincinnati platform. They express
regret that the financial plank did not,
in express terms, declare adherence to
the specie resumption act. They say
the resolution on that subject is danger
ously vague, and that if a movement is
made at the next session of Congress to
repeal the act, thero is nothing in the
Cincinnati*platform to bar the way. Vory
emphatic expressions of dissent are also
heard from the other classes of persons,
with reference to the anti-Chinese plank,
but, as usual, in a day or two all this
feeling will subside, aud nothing will bo
heard save exhortations from everybody
to everybody to support the platform
and the man who stands upon it.
The Springfield, Mass., school-marm
who recently thought to subdue the
rampant spirits pf a ana*U girl by keep
ing her two hours after school, was re
warded when the term waa up, with a
motto lozenge bearing tho pathetic in
quiry, “Must wo part ?"
EGGS AS FOOD.
Would it not be wise to substitute
more eggs for meat iu our daily diet?
About ohe third of the weight of an egg
is solid hvqriincnt, which is more tl th
can be said of meat. There are no bo., as
afid tough pieces that have to be laid
aside. A good egg is made up of ten
parts shell, sixty parts white, and thirty
parts yolk. The white of an egg com
tains eighty six per cent water, the yolk
fifty two per cent., while tho average
weight fan egg is about two ounce;.
Practically an, egg is animal food, and
yet there is none of the disagreeable
work of tho butcher necessary to obtain
it. Eggs are best when cooked three
and a half minutes, as this takes away
tho sliminess that is sO offensive to
some, and makes them easier to digest.
Hard boiled eggs should be eaten with
bread, and masticated very finely. An •
excellent sandwich can be made with
eggs and brown bread, or an egg spread
on toast is excellent food. Fried eggs
are not so easily digested as boiled ones.
An egg dropped into hot water is not
only clean and handsome, but a deli
cious morsel. Most peoplo spoil tho
taste of eggs by adding pepper and too
much salt. Only stale eggs require salt
to make them palatable; real fresh ones
are better without it, or at least a very
little; a little fresh blitter is tho best
dressing. Eggs contain a groat deal of
phosphorus, which is useful to those
who uso their brains much.
Tho ordinary way of boiling eggs
makes tho white too hard before sulli
dent heat “has reached the yolk, and
therefore some epicures suggest to put
only boiling water on tho eggs; and let
them stand for some five or si± minutes
without putting them on tho fire; bnt if
this is dono with cold eggs hi a cold
dish, it cools so quickly that tho eggs
will not be cooked at. all; it is better,
therefore, to pour warm water on tho
eggs, of a temperature that will not
burn tho hands, say 180 or 140 deg.
Fahr., leave it on a few minutes so as to
thoroughly warm tho eggs, then pour it
off, and immediately pour on enough
boiling water to cover tho eggs, and in
fivo minutes they will be all right.
Curious Suicide. —A strange suieido
was that of James A. Moore. He was
an Jinvcntor and a Quaker. His first
step was to register himself at tho Lake
HoUs.a ill Lafayette, lud, and pay his
board in advance for ono week. He
then visited a machine shop, where lio
had riveted to the head of a broad-axe
two bars cf iron. On either side, fasten
ed to these bars like a Fan Ho to an axe,
he arranged ii system of wooden bars.
The extreme end of those was fastened
to a crosspiece secured to tho floor by
hinges. Tho uxo was raised and held
in a nearly perpendicular position by
cords fastened to the wall. Between
the cords stood a candle so fixed as to
burn them off and let down tho axe.
Under this Moore put a basket filled with;
cotton which had been saturated with
chloroform.
He placed his head in this and
cpomiUj becMUYui insensible. The cord
was burned, tho axe fell, and the Load
was completely severed from the
body. He left a paper on tho side of
his gullotine inscribed, “For salo
or rent. Hari-kari Patent applied
for."
• - * *;
A gentleman is a rarer thing than
some of us think for. Which of us can
point out many such in his circle—men
whoso aims ure generous ; wliOfe'O truth
is constant and elevated ; who can look
the world honestly in the face, with an
equal, manly sympathy for the great and
tho small? We all know a hundred
whose coats are woll-mado, and a score
who has excellent manners,.but of geu
tlemcn, how many ? Let us take a lit
tle scrap of paper and each make his
list.—[Thackery.
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A British Empire Horse supply Asso
ciation has been formed in Loudon with
a capital of one million dollars, to import
horses from tho United States- It is
expected to buy borseg here at an aver
age price of one hundred dollars, have a.
steamer which will carry four hundred
and fifty horses make six round trips a
year, and Sell the horses in England at
two hundred and fifty dollars.
£bo was a colored lady and attending
a revival of religion, and had worked
herself up to the extreme pitch of going
to the good place in a moment, or soon
er if possible. As her .friends gave vent
to their feelings, sho likewiso gavo vent
to her feelings, and exclaimed : “I wish
I was a June bug!” A brother of sable
hue, standiug near by, inquired : “What
you want to bo one for?” “So I coulu
fly to glory !” sho said. “You fool nig
ger, woodpecker kotch you ’foro you got
half way dar.”
Wo claim to know something about
arithmetic, but when Mrs. Hopper upon
starting Town town refuses us two dol
lars to pay our cigar man with, saying
“she’s only got a dollar and a half to her
name,” and comes back with a two dol
lar neck-tie and a dollar and a half pair
of kid gloves, it is beyond our caleu
lation.
What a mother lacks in skill sho makes
up in enthusiasm, when she cuts her
boy’s hair. The back of his head may
look like thunder, but every scollop is a
bright vision of devoted affection to tho
understanding mind.
A dog ran into a garden at Waterford,
N. Y., after being poisoned with arsenic,
and saliva from its mouth flow on some
lettuce. An entiro family was made al
most fatally sick by eating the leaves.
A New Orleans belle has eloped with
a barber. Her mama.cries och, hone!
Her friends razo ’cr came from their vis
iting lists, and her father vows that ho
intends to lather the fellow who carried
hef oi
The following rhymes are furnished
by a contemporary for tho use of Radical
poets: “Hayes, blaze,.craze, daze, amaze,
prays, gaze, neighs, raise, ways, brays